Super God-Level Top Student

Even the arrival of the Emperor of Heaven wouldn't make a difference.

Unless there could be a second Qiao Ze.

But the likelihood of a family grave smoking twice in a row is too low, so low it's almost negligible.

No, it's not even appropriate to describe this with the image of a family grave emitting smoke; such a genius being born in Huaxia can genuinely be considered a boost to the national destiny.

From this perspective, Xu Dajiang felt that awarding Li Jiangao an academy membership was really no big deal at all.

If Qiao Ze had made his mark a few years earlier, that would've been a waste of trillions in assets.

And indeed, without a discerning eye to recognize talent, it's quite hard for a stallion to stand out.

So after talking with Chen Yuanzhi, Xu Dajiang already felt much more at ease and even started to let himself go completely.

But what he hadn't expected was that he didn't first receive a call from the school, but rather one from Qiao Ze.

"If you're free, come over to the research institute."

"Sure, give me half an hour."

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Qiao Ze had not specifically called Xu Dajiang over because of the message posted on the official website of the School of Mathematics.

Even though Dou Dou had just informed him about it.

The main reason was that seeing the message made him think of Xu Dajiang and reminding him of the promise he made to Li, to mentor students.

To tell the truth, Qiao Ze did not consider himself very good at teaching students.

His learning method was not something that could be replicated.

Watch videos, read papers, then contemplate a bit, and you could probably understand it all.

If all the students were taught like that, being able to achieve a thirty percent pass rate at the end-of-year exams would be cause for celebration.

However, now that the Qiao's Algebraic Geometry research group had been established, and both Li Jian's and his doctoral students wanted to study these cutting-edge mathematical concepts, he could simply have them join the research group's studies.

He just needed to spare some time each week to answer the doctoral students' questions and to set directions and thesis topics for them.

He had asked Xu Dajiang to come mainly to discuss arranging interviews as soon as possible.

In theory, admitting doctoral students was a matter for September.

But now that the research group had been formed, it was best to have them start as soon as possible.

If they waited until September to join, he feared the new arrivals would struggle to keep up.

In any case, this interview was just a formality; the students had been recommended by professors who were close to Li Jian on a usual basis.

Qiao Ze didn't intend to waste anyone's time.

There were just five spots, which had all been allocated. There was no need to adhere to a selective admission process, inviting a bunch of people for interviews only to perfunctorily eliminate the others.

Keep it simple was the best approach.

When it came to looking after his own people, Qiao Ze never felt any pressure.

If anyone wanted to talk to Qiao Ze about fairness, he might just spare a minute to patiently explain that fairness was never something given by others, it had to be fought for by oneself.

Just like when he was in high school and was suddenly notified he couldn't participate in math competitions, he never asked the school for fairness.

It doesn't sound very nice, but it is very true.

If the word "fairness" could actually exist and be effective on this broken orb, then the ancients wouldn't have made up sophisticated phrases like "when the birds are over, the bows are hidden", or "kill the donkey the moment it leaves the millstone". Nor would it be possible for a small can of laundry powder to cause a country to suffer ten years of war if presented at a high-level meeting.

Reason may not always prevail in loudness, but strength must be hard enough.

So it's reasonable for Li to become an academy member, for Su to become an honorary member of the mathematical association, and for Su to aim to be the king of materials science and create a material industrial park spanning thousands of acres. The primary hoisted by one's own petard.

It's also reasonable for Xu Dajiang to aspire to have the School of Mathematics rank alongside Princeton in the future.

There must be a distinction between kin and kinship.

If anyone objects, they can simply use their strength to take those positions.

If truly outmatched, Qiao Ze wouldn't get angry.

Although Qiao Ze wasn't good at management and hadn't systematically studied it, from his observations of life, if a person couldn't treat those who have always helped and cared for him well and instead always prattled on about repaying evil with kindness, then the person really should be kept at a distance.

After all, whether being an enemy of such a person is dangerous is one thing, but being their friend or family could indeed be fatal.

After finishing his call with Xu Dajiang, Qiao Ze was about to organize some of the manuscripts he had accumulated over the past while when suddenly a message from Dou Dou popped up on his computer screen.

"Dear Daddy, I just detected someone who calculated a result through the model that is worth your serious attention."

"Hmm." Qiao Ze responded.

And then Dou Dou directly pulled up the model's backend data on the screen.

After a quick overview, Qiao Ze felt somewhat surprised.

One had to say, after starting to offer large scale licensing, Huaxia's materials science teams really had some interesting ideas.

Some used the limits of computing power to continuously refresh the upper limits of the materials under research, seizing the opportunity to publish hastily, while others went for the big gamble, unconcerned with wasting this precious window of time, a typical gambler's mentality.

The feedback result of the model this time was undoubtedly the latter approach.

The team, having acquired the valuable test code, used the model to simulate room-temperature superconductivity materials.

Of course, this room temperature was capped; the team wasn't that reckless, setting it to no higher than 0 degrees Celsius. Instead, they aimed for a material that could exhibit superconductivity within a temperature range of 0 to -30 Celsius, that is, within 243.15K to 273.15K.

The highest superconductivity critical temperature published in any paper to date was minus 70 degrees Celsius, or 140K.